Sentences with phrase «formed by our neurons»

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By using a method like Pick Up, Put Down neurons link together into circuits controlling learning, memory, and social behavior, according to Science News, and in turn, the method affects where neurons end up and the connections they form.

His or her newly - formed neurons and connections are the reason your baby - to - be may be able to discern your voice from others by now.

«Our work suggests that the neural pathology of autism manifests in the earliest cortical circuits, formed by a cell type called subplate neurons,» said UMD Biology Professor and senior study author Patrick Kanold.

A unique form of carbon dating, made possible by the Cold War, suggests that new neurons rarely survive in the human olfactory bulb after birth

Allen previously discovered a class of proteins secreted by astrocytes that help neurons form active connections, known as synapses.

CREB helps form memories not by making all neurons stronger but by turning up the contrast between the haves and the have - nots.

It was believed that neurons responded to the size of the image formed on the eye (retinal image); however, size constancy can not be achieved by such cells alone.

What I find most interesting is the idea that the embryonic tissue that goes on to form limb and the motor neurons is regulated by coordinated molecular mechanisms — under the guidance of a genetic program that has been conserved over the course of evolution.

Belgian researchers have identified a new strategy for treating an inherited form of dementia after attempting to turn stem cells derived from patients into the neurons most affected by the disease.

Neurons responding to similar stimulus orientations also clustered forming a map with a pinwheel pattern that was discovered later by other scientists.

When the brain forms memories or learns a new task, it encodes the new information by tuning connections between neurons.

In a closing set of experiments, the researchers examined neurons obtained from mice with the most common inherited form of ALS, one caused by mutations in a gene called SOD1.

The protein seems to be involved in forming or reconfiguring connections between neurons, possibly by clearing away old debris or inefficient connections to make way for new connections.

Neuroscientists believe that memory forms when neurons in these key brain structures are simultaneously activated by glutamate and an electrical pulse, a result of everyday sensory experience.

While it appears the seed of the father - child bond is planted by supplemental neurons in a new dad, it seems a child, on the other hand, may be born with a brain that expects this bond to form in the first place.

But these new neurons helped to form long - term memories and bonds, as the mouse fathers easily recognized their offspring by smell even after they had been separated for a long period of time.

In vertebrates, the axons of many neurons are sheathed in myelin, which is formed by either of two types of glial cells: Schwann cells ensheathing peripheral neurons and oligodendrocytes insulating those of the central nervous system.

«By adapting an automated process to neurons, we were able to go through 800 genes to find one needed for forming synapses — connections — among those cells.»

Astrocytes also form their own long - distance communication networks by «talking» via waves of calcium ions, and, like neurons, they can receive and release neurotransmitters.

These form individual connections influenced by the number of times each neuron communicates with another neuron.

Neuroscientists have long believed that scar tissue formed by glial cells — the cells that surround neurons in the central nervous system — impedes damaged nerve cells from regrowing after a brain or spinal cord injury.

When a new granule cell neuron is made in the dentate gyrus, it needs to get «wired in,» by forming synapses, or connections, in order to contribute to circuit function.

Now, with publication of a study by investigators at the Cedars - Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, ALS researchers know the effects of the attack are worsened, at least in part, by the aging and failure of support cells called astrocytes, which normally provide nutrients, housekeeping, structure and other forms of assistance for neurons.

«Since cholesterol is required by neurons to form synapses (connections) with other cells, this decrease in cholesterol could affect how nerves function for appetite regulation, behavior, memory and even pain and motor activity,» says Dr. Kahn, who is also Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

The first genetically encoded optical tool that can precisely control brain cells (neurons) by the millisecond, optogenetics allows for light - induced control of neuronal activity, helping researchers understand how neurons form circuits that control behavior.

Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, is characterized by the accumulation of plaques (composed of amyloid - beta protein) and fibrous tangles (composed of abnormal tau) in brain cells called neurons.

In motor neuron disease, it was caused by mutations in the FUS protein itself which meant it was no longer able to change form.

When the researchers modeled the effects in mice, they found it strengthened the connections between neurons that make learning possible — what is known as synaptic plasticity — by increasing the action of a cell receptor critical to forming memories.

An intriguing clue to this selectivity is provided by Setola et al., who identify a truncated form of SMN1 that arises from an alternative spliced SMN1 transcript that is preferentially expressed in the axonal projections of developing motor neurons.

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a juvenile autosomal recessive form of motor neuron disease caused by progressive degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord.

Mutations in tau cause neurodegeneration in human brains, and tau modified by the addition of phosphate groups (p - tau) forms aggregates and damages neurons.

Katrin Michel is a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT and is fascinated by the question of how genes and proteins coordinate billions of neurons to form the functional networks of the human brain.

Removal of an ear by amputation of a foreleg, however, results in neurons crossing over to form new connections with the existing auditory neurons on the opposite side of the body (Figure 1B), leading, in turn, to recovery of neuronal function.

The most severe form of SMA is Type 1, a lethal genetic disorder characterized by motor neuron loss and associated muscle deterioration, which results in mortality or the need for permanent ventilation support before the age of two for greater than 90 percent of patients.

We postulated that UNC - 7S might rescue forward locomotion by providing a gap junction subunit in AVB hemichannels that form channels with B class motor neurons.

Alzheimer's Disease is the most common form of dementia in the elderly, and is caused primarily by a loss of neurons in the brain's memory centers and networks.

Furthermore, the synapses between these neurons, also helped by choline, continue forming until 4 years of age!

«The fasting is a mild energetic stress and the neurons respond adaptively by increasing mitochondria which helps them produce more energy and... by increasing the number of mitochondria and neurons it can increase the ability of the neurons to form and maintain synapses and thereby increase learning and memory ability.